Steam Deck Owner Gets 4K & 60 FPS With External Graphics Card
A Steam Deck owner has managed to get the handheld device to run at a 4K resolution with 60 fps or more. His experiment, in which he attached an external graphics card to the Steam Deck, may have cost the device its portability. However, it has successfully boosted its visual quality.
Valve's handheld console, the Steam Deck, is essentially a portable PC, and an impressive one at that, with its base model sporting enough power and performance to run brand new AAA games, with Steam's compatibility listing boasting that it can run over 2000 verified games including FromSoftware's latest, Elden Ring. This means that the handheld launched with an impressive library of games for those who had already been playing on Steam for years. The Steam Deck uses SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system, to access the Steam library, and therefore at the core of the Steam Deck lies a Linux computer. The Steam Deck also has a screen with 1280 x 800 resolution across all three models, slightly beating out its main handheld competition, the Nintendo Switch, which runs at 1280 x 720 resolution in handheld mode on both its original and OLED models.
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YouTuber ETA Prime (via VGC) decided to push the limits of the Steam Deck, getting it to run at 4K resolution with 60 fps or more on a monitor. He achieved this by opening up the handheld, removing its SSD storage from its M.2 expansion slot, and replacing it with a Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU, which was connected via an adapter and external power supply. ETA Prime also opted to forgo the Linux-based operating system and installed Windows 11 onto the Steam Deck, and accessed his games via an external SSD. The experiment
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